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All this week we’ll be in Orlando, Florida for Microsoft Ignite, the showcase event on every technology company’s radar. Ignite is an annual conference which explores the latest technology and allows attendees to meet with tech innovators from across the globe.

Most organisations want to be ‘data-driven’. Many have already made an attempt to extract the hidden value in their data holdings. But does that mean we’re actually data-driven? First, let’s take a look at what the term means.

Productivity is a magic word, it seems everyone is striving for more of it; managers dream of finding a way to increase the productivity of their team, and most of us wish we could be more productive with our time. The truth is we may be missing some easy opportunities to increase our productivity across our day.

Your company collects valuable data. It then pays to store that valuable data. But getting access to it? Well, that’s the often hardest part.

By now we all know that the date for the GDPR implementation is looming. It’s May 2018 just in case you haven’t heard the news. But far from being an annoyance; GDPR is good for business. Yes, it’s vital that companies begin the process of becoming compliant with the new regulation.

For some time, there has been confusion about Brexit and the GDPR. But with less than 500 days remaining before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, it’s time for enterprises to begin preparing.

Brexit and the GDPR: Timing is everything

At face value, the immediate implications of Brexit and the GDPR may not seem that important.

The common misconception about the Cloud is that it’s not a safe data storage solution. At Automated Intelligence, we know that the reality couldn’t be more different. In our experience, Cloud investment (from Microsoft and other providers) is extensive. Security around Cloud platforms like Microsoft Office 365 and Azure now eclipses most legacy or on-premise approaches.